Market Update: Avaya Intros Health Care Collaboration Tools

Avaya Introduces Collaboration Solutions to Help Health Care Providers Enhance Patient Care: Avaya, Inc., a global leader in business collaboration systems, software and services, today announced new and enhanced communications solutions to help health care providers improve workplace collaboration and patient care. The solutions -- to be demonstrated at the 2011 Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition -- use mobility, automated outreach and other technologies to enhance care coordination, pre-admissions preparedness and post-discharge care.

eZuce Announces SIP Services Oriented Architecture for Agile and Scalable Communications Enablement: eZuce introduces open communication systems designed to deliver the best user experience for enterprises leveraging eZuce's revolutionary SIP Services Oriented Architecture TM (SSOA). SSOA represents the state-of-the-art architecture for a scalable, highly-available and modern unified communications system. It optimally uses available resources given its load-sharing redundancy, offers the best possible audio and video quality, and integrates all relevant modes of communications resulting in a compelling end user experience.

prairieFyre Software Announces the Release of prairieFyre Contact Center for Microsoft Lync: prairieFyre Software today announced the release of the prairieFyre Contact Center for Microsoft Lync, a modular software suite that provides sophisticated multichannel contact center functionality for the Lync unified communications platform. Developed on the Voice-over-IP and unified communications architecture of Microsoft Lync Server 2010, prairieFyre Contact Center is ideal for those organizations that wish to leverage the advanced enterprise voice features of the unified communications platform and require a comprehensive contact center solution.

Vidyo in the Cloud: Vidyo, Inc. today introduced the next stage in the evolution of the VidyoConferencing architecture that delivers affordable scalability for telecom carriers and organizations to deploy personal telepresence as a cloud service to tens of thousands of users. VidyoRouter Cloud Edition offers an easily deployed, low-maintenance infrastructure comprised of a network of VidyoRouter appliances to further enhance the Vidyo conference experience, optimize WAN bandwidth utilization and expedite ROI.

Mobiso Cloud-Based Speech Powers New Telesphere Speak2Dial: Lyrix Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-focused communications-as-a-service (CaaS) solutions to SMBs and Fortune 50 Companies worldwide announced today that Telesphere has extended its use of Lyrix's Mobiso Suite to power its new Speak2Dial service, bringing a new service that allows users to access a company's directory through voice prompts from their office or cellular phone.

Intermedia Launches Hosted PBX VoIP Telephone Service to Its Reseller Partners: Intermedia, the world's largest Microsoft Exchange hosting provider, today announced it is making hosted PBX service available for resale by its existing and future partners. Starting next week, these managed service providers, value-added resellers and other technology providers will be able to sell and support Intermedia's hosted PBX under their own brand as members of Intermedia's Private Label Partner Program.

Cisco Makes Video Easier to Create, Consume, Search and Share Across the Enterprise: As part of its strategy to enable organizations to improve business collaboration and communication, Cisco today unveiled a host of new offerings designed to make it easy for anyone to be a video producer. Customers now have new ways to create and consume video across the enterprise.

Azaleos Achieves Renewed Microsoft Gold Competency in Both Unified Communications and Portals and Collaboration: Azaleos Corporation, the managed messaging, collaboration and unified communications services company, today announced that it has renewed its Gold Partner standing and achieved a Gold Certification in both the Unified Communications and Portals and Collaboration Competencies. Coupled with its existing unique status as a National Systems Integrator (NSI) in the Microsoft Partner Network, Azaleos continues to demonstrate its ability to meet Microsoft customers' evolving needs in today's dynamic business environment. There are fewer than 40 NSI partners within the United States.